Author: Tony Nichols
Date: 08:45:25 03/01/06
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On March 01, 2006 at 11:23:45, Uri Blass wrote: >On March 01, 2006 at 09:11:52, Tord Romstad wrote: > >>Taken from the ChessBase site: >> >>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2947 >> >> The classical World Chess Champion against the world's strongest >> computer program: In the WORLD CHESS CHALLENGE (WCC) 2006 classical >> chess World Champion Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) will play a match >> against the world's leading chess computer program, Deep Fritz >> (Germany). >> >>Calling Fritz "the world's leading chess computer program" is not just >>stretching the truth, it's blatantly untrue. I refuse to believe that >>ChessBase is unaware of the existence of chess programs stronger than >>Fritz. They are lying, plain and simple. >> >>It is also getting boring to always watch the same programs get the >>chance to play against the top GMs. >> >>Tord > >The match is in dates 25.11. to 05.12.06 and we cannot be 100% sure that fritz >is not going to be the best program at that time(inspite of the fact that I do >not expect it to happen) > What we know is that Fritz is not the strongest program. So any claims that it is are false(a lie). >I do not support chessbase advertisement but I think that it is not a lie but >only a misleading advertisement. > >Lying is saying something that you know that it is not correct and in this case >it is possible that deep fritz is going to be the strongest computer program in >the time of the match and in that case the claims in the advertisement are >correct(chessbase did not claim that fritz is today the strongest program). > Wether or not Fritz someday becomes the strongest program does not change the fact that Chessbase is lying. Regards Tony >Uri
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